BSA Distinguished Lectures
Videos
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Illuminating Dark Matter
October 2, 2018 | Neal Weiner
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1:09:37
Molecular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Release
April 26, 2018 | Axel Brunger
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1:02:25
The Warped Universe: The One-Hundred-Year Quest to Discover Einstein's Gravitational Waves
October 11, 2017 | Nergis Mavalvala
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1:02:43
Preventing Tick-borne Disease by Heritably Immunizing Populations of White-footed Mice
June 8, 2017 | Kevin Esvelt
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Unlocking the Materials Genome Through Combinatorial Nanoscience
March 23, 2017 | Chad Mirkin
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The Quantum Universe
October 4, 2016 | Hitoshi Murayama
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Solar-Driven Water Splitting
September 15, 2016 | Harry Gray
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The Discovery of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes
June 16, 2016 | Imre Bartos
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1:12:25
'Universe or Multiverse?'
October 7, 2015 | Andrei Linde
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Advancing Science
June 11, 2015 | Rush Holt
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1:08:41
What Are Climate Models Good For?
April 28, 2015 | Gavin Schmidt
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54:25
LCLS: A Stunning New View Through X-ray Laser Eyes
October 14, 2014 | Chi-Chang Kao
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Research at CERN - From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles
May 1, 2013 | Rolf-Dieter Heuer
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BSA Distinguished Lecture: 'Spheres: One Hundred Years of Topology'
November 8, 2012 | John Milnor
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The Atomic Bombs President Truman Did Not Drop
October 9, 2012 | Michael J. Devine
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Precision Measurements in Biology
December 2, 2011 | Stephen Quake
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1:50:58
Space Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron Collider
October 25, 2011 | Nima Arkani-Hamed
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Harnessing Energy from the Sun for Six Billion People -- One at a Time
September 8, 2011 | Daniel Nocera
Event Announcements
- SEP25Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Seeing the Unseeable: Making the First Image of a Black Hole
Dr. Sheperd Doeleman, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- AUG20Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Science of Laughter
Professor Sophie Scott, University College London, United Kingdom
Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT2Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Illuminating Dark Matter
Professor Neal Weiner, NYU
Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- AUG20Monday
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Biodesign Under Pressure: 10 Molecules. 90 Days. Go.
Dr. Benjamin Gordon, Director, MIT-Broad Foundry
Monday, August 20, 2018, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR26Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release
Axel T. Brunger, HHMI & Stanford University
Thursday, April 26, 2018, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT11Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Warped Universe: The One-Hundred-Year Quest to Discover Einstein's Gravitational Waves
Dr. Nergis Mavalvala, Marble Prof. of Astrophysics, MIT
Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUN8Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Preventing tick-borne disease by heritably immunizing populations of white-footed mice
Professor Kevin Esvelt, MIT
Thursday, June 8, 2017, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAR23Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Unlocking the Materials Genome through Combinatorial Nanoscience
Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University
Thursday, March 23, 2017, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT4Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Quantum Universe
Prof. Hitoshi Murayama, Univ. of California Berkeley and Kavli Institute, Univ. of Tokyo
Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP15Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Solar Driven Water Splitting
Professor Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, September 15, 2016, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUN16Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Discovery of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes
Dr. Imre Bartos, Physics Department, Columbia University
Thursday, June 16, 2016, 4:30 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT7Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Universe or Multiverse?
Andrei Linde, Stanford University
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP30Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
A Hundred Years of Visualizing Molecular Structure
Professor Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Wednesday, September 30, 2015, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUN11Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Advancing Science
Dr. Rush Holt, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Thursday, June 11, 2015, 1:30 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR28Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
What Are Climate Models Good For?
Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 4:30 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT14Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
LCLS: A Stunning New View Through X-ray Laser Eyes
Chi-Chang Kao, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR30Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology
Professor James Collins, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston University, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT23Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Paradigms for a 21st Century University: Building a Research University 'From the Sand Up'
David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY1Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Research at CERN - From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director-General, CERN, Switzerland
Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 5:30 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- NOV8Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Spheres: One Hundred Years of Topology
Professor John Milnor, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University
Thursday, November 8, 2012, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT9Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Atomic Bombs President Truman Did Not Drop
Michael Devine, Director, Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
Tuesday, October 9, 2012, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall, Room A
- JUL25Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
A discovery! The Higgs? Why is this important? How it was done.
Howard Gordon Sally Dawson, Physics Department, BNL
Wednesday, July 25, 2012, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR17Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Starving the Ocean: Why we should Leave Small Fish in the Sea
Ellen Pikitch, SUNY Stony Brook
Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- NOV30Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Precision Measurement in Biology
Stephen Quake, Stanford Univeristy
Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT19Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and the Large Hadron Collider
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP8Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Creating ‘Personalized’ Solar Energy for Six Billion People
Daniel Nocera, MIT
Thursday, September 8, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUN24Friday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
North Korea. Iran, and Syria - Lessons Learned from the IAEA Inspections
Olli Heinonen, Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Friday, June 24, 2011, 3 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY23Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
From the Structure and Function of the Ribosome to New Antibiotics
Thomas Steitz, Yale University
Monday, May 23, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAR4Friday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Life at the Single Molecule Level
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, Harvard University
Friday, March 4, 2011, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY26Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Answering Gauguin's questions in particle physics: Where are we coming from? What are we? Where are we going?
John Ellis, CERN, Switzerland
Wednesday, May 26, 2010, 7 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR27Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Extra Dimensions of Space - Are They Going to Be Found Any Time Soon?
Valery Rubakov, Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAR2Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
Robert Shiller, Yale University
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP14Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
From sea anemone to homo sapiens: the evolution of the p53 family of genes
Arnold Levine, Institute for Advanced Study
Monday, September 14, 2009, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- NOV6Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
Alan Guth, MIT
Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP9Tuesday
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Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and the IAEA in Tomorrow's World
Jill Cooley, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUN9Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Network Science: From the Web to human diseases
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University
Monday, June 9, 2008, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY15Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Unraveling the Mystery of an Environmental Disease
Arthur Grollman, Stony Brook University, Dept. of Pharmacology
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAR12Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Climate Change: Prospects for Nature
Thomas Lovejoy, Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment
Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- OCT5Friday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission
Steven Squyres, Cornell University
Friday, October 5, 2007, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY30Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Einstein's Biggest Blunder?: A Cosmic Mystery Story
Lawrence Krauss, Case-Western University
Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 7 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- FEB6Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Before the Big Bang? A Novel Resolution of a Profound Cosmological Puzzle
Roger Penrose, Oxford University, U.K.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP12Tuesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The End of an Era - Science in a flat world
Neal Lane, Rice University
Tuesday, September 12, 2006, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- SEP11Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Confessions of a President's Science Advisor
Neal Lane, Rice University
Monday, September 11, 2006, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY4Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Horst Stormer, Columbia University
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR21Friday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity
Frank Wilczek, MIT
Friday, April 21, 2006, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- DEC5Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Searching Scholarly Literature: A Google Scholar Perspective
Anurag Acharya, Google
Monday, December 5, 2005, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- NOV10Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness
John Rigden, Washington U. in St. Louis
Thursday, November 10, 2005, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- MAY11Wednesday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Celebrating Richard Feynman
Ralph Leighton
Wednesday, May 11, 2005, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- APR22Friday
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The Structure and Function of Photosystem II
James Barber, Imperial College London, U.K.
Friday, April 22, 2005, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JAN24Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Superstring/M-theory: A Lathe for Physics?
Sylvester Gates, Univ. of Maryland
Monday, January 24, 2005, 4 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- DEC10Friday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
The Ribosome: The Cell's Protein-Synthesizing Machine and How Antibiotics Disrupt It
Venki Ramakrishnan, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England
Friday, December 10, 2004, 11 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- AUG19Thursday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Whose Science is Arabic Science in Renaissance Europe?
George Saliba, Columbia University
Thursday, August 19, 2004, 4 a.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
- JUL12Monday
BSA Distinguished Lecture
Eye of the Forehead and Eye of the Mind: How Engineers and Scientists See
John Lienhard, Public Radio Host
Monday, July 12, 2004, 12 p.m., Berkner Hall Auditorium
